Any clever way to launch a makefile in Visual Studio only if build succeeded?

Question

We have a makefile that is built last in our build process using Visual Studio to launch our unit tests. Unfortunately if the build fails the makefile is still processed and we have extra (annoying) errors. Any way to prevent that?

Example Project A : build dummy.exe Project B (makefile) : build command is : run dummy.exe /unittest

We want Project B to skip its build command when Project A has build errors. Thanks!

Answer 1

Go to Project Properties. I assume you already have something in the "Post-Build event command line" box? There is a "Run the post-build event" combobox, set it to "On successful build".

Is that what you're looking for?

Answer 2

Set Project B (your makefile project) to be dependant on Project A. This way Project B will always try to build Project A before it builds.